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A 2009 Subaru Forester. So far its been the perfect caching machine. It has served me well on urban cache runs and jeep trail caches. I loved the mobile geocaching comand center someone posted a few pages back!

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Just wondering what kind of vehicle do people drive while Geocaching. Do you have 4x4's for the off-road cache's? Are there road warriors that mainly stick to the ones that you can drive right up to, or hike back?

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The minivan has geocaching and Waymarking decals. The cruiser has a Waymarking decal.

I used to have a Kia Optima that I used and abused with off-roading. I got stuck several times but always kept roadside assistance or AAA (depending on which was cheaper at that time). There was only one time when nobody was able to come pull my car out of the snowbank... but the local sheriff's department helped me sort that one out. I went back and got that cache a few months later when it was Spring and everything was thawed out, then waymarked the heck out of the area. My husband thinks I should only off-road in "all-terrain vehicles"... . He gets really nervous when I drive the minivan through sugar sand. Can't imagine why!

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I use a 03 Chev Avalanche (4x4) for the back road. Finding it really hard to get to some place because it's just too big. Thinking about selling and getting a jeep. My little civic gets me everywhere else.

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Nissan X-Trail or Dodge Caravan - both 2006, with travel bugs on each, of course. The Dodge was called the Popoki Po-Mobile by caching friends as it has a portable toilet in...our "bathroom" has had some wonderful views!

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This is my rig I just built up for exploration and caching. Future mods will be larger tires with regearing and differential locks front and rear, Rocker armour, winch/front reciever hitch, and HID trail lighting.

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Don't have any photos but trust me they are impressive. Especially when lined up side by side with their grills pointing towards you.

The ultimate one would be the Buick. I'm convinced that one would survive a nuclear blast if ground zero were 10 miles or more distant. We plan our geocaching trips so that we remain outside the ground zero blast zone.

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Being the hippie tree-hugging make myself feel good at being liberal type of guy I have a Prius, but sometimes I will take out the Yarris that one of our daughter drives when she is not at the university. I would want to cache in a Volt when (and if) it comes out, but given what the university is charging us and how the state keeps imposing furloughs on its workers and the banks are laying people off, I may have to wait for the second or third generation. By then maybe the zen car will actually get the high capacity batteries perfected.

But there is a cache 60 miles down a dirt road from Freedonia, AZ, at the Toroweap overlook. I really want to get there if we visit the area next July. But the ranger put the fear of the road gods in us when we spoke to him about it when we were passing through earlier this year. People talk about high clearance and how the road eats tires, particularly the last few miles. But they also talk about seeing sedans in the camping area. So I don't know about taking the rental down there. But for me, this would be a great caching trip so a vehicle that would get me there would be the ultimate vehicle.

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That's at a cache (GC1T0YJ Country Breezes) this very morning. It's even a TB! Nothing extra, though I have thought about figuring out how to wire up a USB charging point right off the car, so I can plug my GPS in while caching.

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A 2009 Subaru Forester. So far its been the perfect caching machine. It has served me well on urban cache runs and jeep trail caches. I loved the mobile geocaching comand center someone posted a few pages back!

This is my 2006 Mitsubishi l200 warrior,had it a year now & its lots of fun.

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How on earth do these threads keep on popping up, anyway? This one is over three years old! We get new threads posted on micros, permission issues, SBA logs, and so many other issues where the OP really should do the research first and post to a 3 year old log that really pertains to geocaching, yet the "What Kind of Vehicle" and "How Did You Serve" threads just keep coming to the forefront like bad pennys. Amazing!